So I was looking into the history of battery naming conventions. this is imo the absolute best thing about the internet, quickly finding information on very niche topics. I was really excited that somebody actually made a video about the exact weird question I had just asked myself and couldn’t find out enough about on wikipedia! I was however quickly disappointed to realize that it’s basically just shitty AI slop designed to play the youtube algorithm and generate watch time. at 1:24 the way the sentence is phrased is not only a dead giveaway, it’s also detrimental to the understandability of the content, not that there is really any meaningful information being conveyed in this video beyond the immediately obvious. then at 3:01 the battery shown is so totally not an A battery!! that’s an ignition dry cell, the precursor to the LR40, the thing is 15 cm tall and can hold 40 fucking amp-hours! just look at those huge fucking screw contacts on the top!!! that’s where I realized what was going on. these guys are spreading worthless, misleading falsehoods, poisoning the well of information we call the internet, and at the very least they’re parasites, leaching away our time on this earth just so they can make a couple of pennies worth of profit. it breaks my heart 💔
Wait.
It just dawned on me.
That’s the whole fucking point of LLMs. They can’t change truthful sources of information, they can only change what information is presented to the User.
By massively pumping in billions and billions of dollars into the LLM Slop machine, it’s not investing in a useless technology, it’s investing in anti-intellectualism. It’s entirely on purpose.
They’re trying to poison the minds of people.
There may be some involved that see this as useful for their purposes. Let’s not fool ourselves though, the main reason has always been the money. Once it was realized this could be a huge profit scheme, that was the purpose. Anything else, good or bad, is a side effect of the money grab. Regulations should have stepped in long, long ago, but laws are always way behind technology.
I like how we said the same thing, but I got downvoted for it because I didn’t bury the lede.
They’re not trying to. They’re mostly trying to replace the need for wages and salaries.
The fact that they’re doing it with effectively “we have wage slaves at home” leads to your point.
AI can be a great tool. As an assistant. As a fancy search engine. And sometimes to do the most menial parts of jobs. But it doesn’t directly replace people. Even in the case of taking fast food orders, first that’s not a whole job, and second, it still needs supervision. It’s a tool.
l was with you until you said fast food wasn’t a whole job. It’s more of a job than most, especially because of supervisors. It’s exhausting and rough work. The one cost they bring up the most at fast food jobs is “labor” costs (they never say wages, wonder why).
Parent comment is saying that taking orders at a fast food restaurant is not the full job. Not that working in fast food isn’t a real job.
I believe that if you re-read that and correct a mild grammatical error the intent becomes clearer (correction highlighted):
But it doesn’t directly replace people. Even in the case of taking fast food orders, first that’s not the whole job, and second, it still needs supervision.
Yeah, there are sites/tools that will generate these videos from a prompt. Hell, NotebookLM will do it for free. As long as there’s money to be made from clicks, these will flood the content channels.
Well now I’m curious and don’t trust myself to find the correct answer. Why do we have this naming scheme?
Let me know if you find anything 😅
Early editions of the ANSI standard used a letter code to identify the dimensions of the cell. Since at the time there were only carbon-zinc cells, no suffix letters or other notation were required. The letter system was introduced in the 1924 edition of the standard, with letters A through J assigned approximately in order of increasing cell volume, for cells typically manufactured at that time
Thanks Buddy! I got so wrapped up in the ai debacle that I didn’t look into my question any further 😅 I was actually initially trying to find out where the German designations of “baby”, “lady”, “mono”, and “mignon” come from. Haven’t gotten very far on that end either 🤔
You misspelled “Well of garbage”
This video is so deep into uncanny valley for me. Who tf pronounces AA batteries as /eɪ/ /eɪ/ batteries, then at the same time calls AAA batteries, “triple /eɪ/ batteries”?
Everyone I’ve ever known has said “Double /eɪ/” and “Triple /eɪ/”. The weirdness of the voiceover is so distracting.
haven’t watched the vid but I always pronounce AA as ay ay and AAA as ay ay ay. maybe because im not a native english speaker tho.
That’s okay as long as you are consistent. Doing “ay ay batteries” and “triple ay” in the same sentence is weird.
